0000000000780601
AUTHOR
Emanuele Cipolla
Invalid Syntax: NooJ Assisted Automatic Detection of Errors in Auxiliaries and Past Participles in Italian
The work targets two areas of Italian morphosyntax: auxiliary selection (AS) and past participle agreement (PPA). In selecting such inflectional morphemes, learners of Italian commit frequent errors, even after a long period of constant study. We aim to enclose AS and PPA within the boundaries of NLP in order that a tool can be developed with a twofold purpose: first, it helps experts to build specific computer drills regarding AS and PPA; second, it assists self-taught learners in verifying whether their periphrastic sentences in Italian are well-turned. This area of Computer-Assisted Language Learning is currently poorly investigated. Further research might substantiate the importance of …
Dalla Word Sense Disambiguation alla sintassi: il problema dell'articolo partitivo in italiano
Out of context, a sequence of Italian such as dei professori 'of.the teachers' is ambiguous: it can either mean some teachers (e.g. Dei professori intervennero 'Some teachers attended') or carry the value of a Saxon genitive (e.g. i libri dei professori 'the teachers' books'). The part of speech to which dei professori belongs cannot be identified: dei could be a partitive article in a noun phrase or a preposition in a prepositional phrase. This key difference raises a problem in the area of Word Sense Disambiguation. Despite its relevance for NLP, this case of homonymy has so far been disregarded in the literature. The paper distinguishes the functions of grammar morphemes such as dei and …